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Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
THE HOUSEHOLD.

A dainty little pudding is made of
any stale sponge cake you have over, say
about half a pound. Cut in slices, and
soak them in a little scalding milk; then
beat up lightly, mixing in the juice and
finely grated rind of half a lemon, or a
tablespoonful of orange mermialade, a
small piece of butter, and an egg well
beaten; two ounces of sugar if the lemon
is used: bake half an hour in quick oven.
Roughly chopped preserved ginger Or
pineapple can be used instead of the
other fruit. adding some of syrup instead
of sugar.
APPLE sHAPE.-Put a pound of sugar to
half pint of water; boil and skim; add
one pound of pared apples, quartered and
boil until tender and clear. Then add the
juice of two lemons and the yellow rind
(grated) of one of them; press through a
sieve, together with half a box of gelatine,
previously dissolved. Stir until COOL
Separate four eggs, beat whites to stiff
froth and mix it with the fruit syrup when
sufficiently thickened and cool in a mold.
The yolks of the eggs make the sauce.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
FARM NOTES.

Iowa is rapidly changing from a wheat
state to dairy state.
Leave plenty of potato to your potato
eye if you want strong plants.
Give the COWS warm stables, but do not
forget TO have the air pure.
A good deal of the peculiar mutton taste
is taken out of it when mutton is cured.
To properly keep straw and hay in
stacks, the stack must be so constructed
as to shed water.
When pigs are coughing it indicates
not only damp yards, but also that the
roof of the shelter leaks.
Whenever the wheat fields and pas
lures are thrown up by the frost it is
best to run roller over the chop.
Scatter some of the finest, richest and
best manure you have on the piece of
ground intended for your onions.
IF swine are to be kept on the farm the
profits will be found in tho fneat breeds
that run into matured meat the Grst year.
It has been suggested that farm horses
be sold by weight in addition to other
qualities, SO as to induce farmers to raise
larger and better horses.
When cleaning the perches in the poul-
try-houee it is necessary to apply the
mixture of kerosene oil and grease to the
under side as well as the top.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
GENERAL NEWS.

The Michigan lumber camps are break
ing up.
The balloon for the Paris exhibition of
1889 will carry off 100 persons.
The license party at Atlanta, ILL.,, has
nominated W. w. Mix for mayor.
Over three hundred new settlements in
Dakota are applicants for pOstoffices.
Over 1000 women have registered at
Leavenworth, Kansas, under the new
law granting municipal suffrage to
women.
A committee of the school board of
Memphis has recommended the expul-
sion from the Peabody school of a girl
alleged to have negro blood in her veins.
The governor of Tennessee has signed
the bill submitting to the people a prohi-
bition amendment to the constitution.
The election will be held next Septem-
Der.
Several books of county records which
have long been missing, were recently
found in Davenport Gowa) saloon,
where they had been pawned for liquor
by former official.
During the coming summer a United
States geological surveying party will
make tour of the upper peninsula of
Michigan and will thoroughly Investigate
the supposed copper bearing regions.
THE Minnesota legislature, in sixty
days session, introduced seventeen hun
dred bills and passed enough of them to
appropriate nearly two millions of dollars
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
FARM, HOME AND GARDEN
AN EMPTY NEST.
FROM HARPER's MAGAZINE.

A grave old man and a maiden fair
Walked together at early morn;
The thrushes up in the clear cool air
Sang to the farmer planting his corn.
And oh! how sweet was the fresh turned
moundl
And oh! how fair were the budding trees.
For daisy's silver and daffodil's gold
Were full of the happy honey bees.
.Ab, look! there's an empty nest" she said
And wonder where sing the last year IS
birdSf''
Then the old man quickly raised his head,
Though scarcely he noted Eer missing
words:
He tore the nest from the swaying tree,
He flung to the winds its moss and hay
And said: When an empty nest you See,,
Be sure that you threw itfar away"
''But whys she asked, with a sorrowing
face
why may not the pretty home abide?''
Because he anwsered. Twill DO a place.
In which the worm and the slug will ride.
Last year twas fair enough in its way
It was full of love, and merry with song;
But days that are gone must not spoil to-
day.
Nor dead joys do.the living joys wrong"
The maiden heart with thoughtful face
Her first false love had gone far away
and she thought; Is NY heart become
place
For anger and grief and bate to stay?
Down heart with thy sad forsaken nest!
Fling far thy selfish and idle pain.
The love that is ours is always the best;
And she went with smile TO her Wcrk
Again.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
Weaving Lambs.
Practical Farmer.

The common practice of allowing ewea
and laUbs to run togethes until taken up
for winter, is bad for both. While the
eve does not afford the three or four
months old lamb sufficient nourishment
to meet its wants, she does afford enough
to cause him to continually chase her
about, to anoy her, and to spoil her ap-
petite for other food, and the drain upon
her system is sufficient to cause much loss
of flesh. The proper age at which to
separate lamb from its dam is when it
is from fourteen to sixteen months old;
but it should be prepared for the separa-
ton by being previously taught to eat,
near where the sheep are wont to sleep,
and where they should be encouraged to
congregate, by being daily given little
salt. In yard built for the purpose, or
in an adjoining field, having the fence
between SO arranged that the
lambs alone can pass through, place suit
able troughs, which may be made by nail
ing together, V-shape, two boards, six in
ches wide, with ends nailed in, which
troughs are placed on legs, SO as to raise
them about six inches from the ground.
Into these put, daily, a little oats, corn,
bran, oil-meal, or mixture of any or all
of these, SO that the lambs will acquire a
taste for them; in two weeks they will
have learned to eat, and will be ready for
separation. They should now be put into
field of fresh grass, where they can have
plenty of good fresh water, and should
have the grain ration continued in suffi-
cient quantity to keep up constant
growth. The ewes and lambs should be
placed SO far apart that they can not hear
each other bleat, and the lambs, if at all
wild, should have one or two very tame
dry ewes put with them, that they may
the sooner become accustomed to the
| presence of the feeder. The ewes, for a
| few days, should be put upon rather poor
feed, and be occasionally looked after,
and if necessary. gaaillzed, that they do not
suffer with infamed udders, and perhaps
the loss of the whole or part. After
this they should be carefully sorted, and
none but the best retained for future
breeding. The remainder should receive
extra feed to be hurried into condition for
market. The breeding ewes should be
| given good pasture, so that they may be-
| come ~ good flesh before cold weather,
and should at no time be allowed to fall
| away. The moment they are allowed to
do SO the growth of the wool ceases, or
becomes of very uneven and inferior
quality.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
A Miracle Worker.

The Pail Mall Gazette publishes this re-
port from the person whom it sent to
investigate the doings Of Mr.. George
Miner Stephen, miracle worker" The
conditions on which number of patients
were submitted to his operations were
that if a cure, complete or partial were
accomplished, a full signed statement of
each case should be published; if, on the
other hand, nothing was done, the strict
est secrery as to names and places should
be preserved. These conditions were
agreed to by both Mr.. Stephen, and the
patients. It is therefore, impossible for
me to refer to the tests in much detail.
The persons selected for experiment were
suffering from blindness of several kinds
cataract, leucoma, amaurosls = and
deafness of various degrees, recent and
long-standing. These were specified by
Mr.. Stephen himself as the classes of all
ment he was able to treat most success
fully. There was also one case of rheu-
matism, which, however, did not pro-
vide. Mr.. Stephens method was in every
case the same. He began by introducing
accidentally, as it were, recital of won
derful cures of precisely the same all
ment as the one before him, giving names
and dates and places with remarkable
fueucy. Then he disco yered in the case
before him some features which rendered
it peculiarly untitled for his particular
treatment, the case was too bad, or it was
too long standing, or it had been
treated byother, doctors in an anti pathet
ic manner, or the patients attitude of
mind was inimlcal to a cure, or many
application of the "power" would be
necessary, or-in the case of the man
| with the rheumatic arm-the power"
could not penetrate when the pores of
the skin were filled with liniment. Then
he usually turned to me and assured me
| that if it we've not for my presence and
the fact that this was special test case
he would not have even attempted cure.
| Then followed the simple (apostolic, I
presume) laying on of hands. Then,
| ears, Which he did sometimes from the
mouth, ofteners through a little metal pipe.
The insertion of plug of ''magnetized"
| cotton wool in the ears was also regular
part of the treatment for deafness. Then
came questions calculated to lead the
patient to admit that slight improve
| ment had effected. In no single case was
this admission made, even in the slight
| est degree, except in that of the man
with rheumatism, who, while wincing with
the pain caused by twisting the arm to
discover to what extent it still panied
him, was induced to say: 81 think per-
haps it is a little easier, but the pain is
still there" I state again as definitely
as | know how, that Mr.. Stephen has
accomplished absolutely nothing in my
presence.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
days, set the stump on fire on the wind

days, set the stump on fire on the wind
ward side and it will burn out. The
pieces of roots remaining in the soil will
be pulled out by the plough, as they have
lost their support. Boring holes in a
stump from which the earth has not been
dug and filling them with oil is sheer
folly. The part Of the stump above the
ground could be burned without the oil,
while the part below the surface will not
burn, because it is too wet to burn, and
the pores of the wood being filled by
moisture the oil is excluded.
It pays to burn out large stumps in the
way have described, and this is the only
way in which any stump can be burned
out. 1t is easy enough % burn stump
off. The smaller stumps are most econo-
mically got rid of by grubbing them out
at once. A lever and horse may well be
used to aid, but they cannot do
all the work. My favorite plan with
moderately large stamps is to
dig the earth away from one side, expos
ing the largest side root. A log-chain
is passed under this root, close against
the stump, and team is attached to the
chain. Next get a fourteen foot lever
red elm pole makes splendid one, being
light, rigid and strong and white the
horses pull at a right angle to the line of
the root [ put my weight on the lever.
This usually brings the stump at the first
trial. The quickest and best way to get
out a moderately large stump having a
tap root, as the hickory, is to GO bravely
to work dig the earth away and cut the
root. Smaller stumps having tap roots
may be twisted out. Cut the side roots if
there are any. Then put around the
stump log chain, making the chain just
so long that the end of stout lever can
be got between it and the stump. The
lever must be inserted vertically; it's
weight will bring it to a horizontal po-
sition and tighten the chain. Attach a
horse to the other end of the lever and
drive it around. One revolution will
either twist off the root or SO loosen it
that, by putting your lever under the
stump, you can pry it out. have never
been able to find any royal road to clear
ing land of stumps, and | have been seek
ing it for years, and have had some thous-
ands of stumbs, of all ages and sizes, to
experiment on. Now that J have more
land cleared eff, [ am not compelled to
put in cultivated crows as soon as the
trees are cut off. put it down in grass
for three years, keeping the sprouts from
the stumps well cut down, and at the end
of that time the smaller stumps can be
pulled out and the larger ones burned out
with reasonable rapidity and ease in the
ways haze indicated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
Early Pasture.
Americas Agricultrist.

Early pasture, so servicable on every
farm, is to be secured by sowing grasses
which start early, not by turning the
stock on the grass as soon as 1t Is big
enough to be grazed. The grass must
make considerable growth before 1t is
fit for food, and the more favorable the
weather, the greater the growth required.
Young grass has too great proportion
of water, and when eaten by animals,
physics them while affording little nutri-
ment. 1t is not uncommon to see ami
mails turned into pasture early, lose flesh.
The pastures also are injured. The
ground is wet and soft, all the grasses,
except possibly blue grass, are impaired
by the trampling they suffer. Grazed
upon before they have made good
root growth and gathered considerable
vigor, grasses are slow to start up again,
and their growth is feeble. Pasturing
early, therefore, is extravaganza. If the
animals are kept on dry feed two weeks
longer, they will continue to gain flesh
instead of losing it. A patch of rye
should be sown IN the fall for early pas
ture.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
VI \ "a
M.LSKM.RY
zSY 4 / /

The Milwaukee, Lake Shore 81 Western
Railway has been well named the Fishing
and Hunting Line of Wisconsin, passing,
as it does, through thousands of acres of
but partially explored woods and within
easy reaching distance of lakes and
streams that have never keen tished by
white men, all well stocked with the game
fish for which Northern Wisconsin waters
are noted. The woods abound with game,
deer, BEAR wolf, mink, beaver, pheasant,
and other game are quite plentiful.
THE ONLY LIN f
From Milwaukee to the new Iron Mining
District in Wisconsin and Michigan-Go-
gebic, Wakefield, Bessemer, Ironwood and
Hurley.
Direct line to ASHLAND and beyond.
Sleeping cars between ASHLAND, MIL
WAUKEE and CHICAGO.
The GUIDE Book, and other desert ptive
matter, containing full information, maps
and engravings of the country traversed
by the line, will be sent on application to
the General Passenger Agent.
CHAs. A. COLE, Gen. Agent, los Wash
ington St., Chicago.
Chicago Depot, Cor. Wells and Kinzie
Sts., &C. & N. W. R'y.)
HE. WHITCOMB, CHAS. v. McKINLAY
Gen1 Manager. Gen'l Pass. Agent,
MILWAUKEE,. WIS.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24

the plants are in blossom, in order to re-
tain moisture during the winter days, and
to protect the berries from dirt. Young
plants, intended for new bed, should
be set out early, so as to get the benefit
of the spring rains. If put out late. and
the season becomes dry, many of them
will perish. In preparing the new bed
pillow the soil deeply, scatter fine, well de-
composed manure over the ground and
harrow the surface several times, SO as
to have the soil in as fine condition as
possible.
All the old canes of blackberries and
raspberries that have not been removed
before now should be cut out and the
young plants worked as early as can be
done. Manure as great factor in pro-
ducing heavy crops, but as fruit-growlng
and stock-raising are different pursuits
enough manure can always be obtained
for large field; but an excellent fertilizer
can be made by mixing 200 pounds
superphosphate, 900 pounds kainit and
200 pounds ground fish, asing a
good handful around each plant early in
the season and again applying another
handful after giving the final cultivation
to the crop. Grass and weeds must I'M
der no consideration be allowed to grow
between the rows.
Grapes should be trimmed now and the
vineward well cultivated both ways. AS
a precaution against rot dissolve pound
each of sulphate of copper and copperas
in four gallons of boiling water. Then
add four gallons more in three or four
hours after, and while the solution is
warm use it for Stacking freshly burned
stone lime, getting the lime inio as fine
condision as can be done. Scatter the
lime around the vines, covering the ground
well, and dust the vines also. When
the vines are In fullleaf give light dust
ing over them again. If this does not
prevent rot entirely it will greatly assist
in reducing its ravages, and by repeating
the application for two or three seasons
the disease may be eradicated.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24

used tobacco prepared for chewing. He
had a habit of taking a good cigar,
cutting it in two in the middle, then plac-
ing the cut end of one of the halves be-
tween his teeth, he would chew it. He did
not take what Ben Butler is so fond of,
dry smoke, as it is called, but he chewed
the cigar. He determined to break this
habit, and to help him the more easily to
conquer it, he filled his pockets with loz-
enges or other choice candies every
morning. Conkling has very sweet
tooth, and is very fond of good candy.
The last three or four years he was in the
senate he was rarely without lozenge or
other candy in his mouth. Senator Eaton
and Senator Jones, of Florida, were both
pets of Conkling, and both being very
fond of candy. almost daily performed
this little comedy: Eaton would stroll
over to Conkling's desk and chat few
moments, never failing to evince the pro-
found admiration for Conkling that he
had. By and by he would say: 'Conkling,
what dc you do when your throat is a1y
and husky?" Thereupon Conkling would
produce box in which were the sugar
plums, and Eaton, taking two or three,
would stroll leisurely away with one in
his mouth. By and by Jones would walk
across the aisle and make his obeisance
to Conkling. Then he would cough and
hem and clear his throat. Out would
come the box, and Jones made himself
happy with two or three candies after
sufficient hesitation about taking them.
Once when Jones, of Nevada, was making
a speech, and his voice grew husky,
Conkling arose, pulled his box of con-
fections from his pocket. and presented
it to the miner, with as much formality
and dignity as though comforting the Or
der of the Garter. He afterward told
Jones that if he would eat more candy
and use less tobacco he would have no
trobble with his voice.
But if the habit of chewing is decreas-
ing, that of smoking is gaining. The
coming generttion, by all signs, will all
smoke.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
ountry Gentlemen

Country Gentlemen.
Some of your CORES pondents are asking
how to rid land of stumps, and others are
giving their xperience-mostlyh owsal ey
did not get the stuanps out of the way. I
believe that few people have had as much
experience with stumps as have. By
removing stump L mean removing not
only the part above ground, but the roots
to such depth that they will not interfere
in blowing or cultiyating. Of all things,
I despise ''blind'' stump-one just even
with the surface of the ground. True, it
will allow the mower to pass over it; but
you may not see it until you ''jam inn it
with your pillow or cuitivator. Both you
and the teaua brought to a standstil so
sudden that it is not good for you, unless
the the pillow breaks. Iou may use gan
powder as you please, and it will not re-
move the roots unless you put it in each
root, which would be more bother than
grubbing them out. Gunpower will leave
q blind stump every time; and if I wanted
this 1 would cut the tree down at the sur
face of the ground. Dynamite would ac-
complish more. as it hits hardest down
wards. It could be laid on the top of the
stump. But 1, for one, will use the mat
took before / will fool with dynamite,
Coal oil or any other oil, though the stump
be bored full of hloes and every hole
be full OF oil, will accom- plish no
more than gunpowder, unless the earth
is dug away from the roots and they are
allowed to dry out. The parts Of stump
below the surface of the ground are full
of moisture; but if the earth is dug away
in the summer, say in June, all aroun d
the stump to the depth of a foot. and
along the roots for distance of at least
two feet. by the middle of August the
parts exposed will have lost nearly all
moisture, as the weather is usually dry
then. Then bore four or five holes into
the stump. starting the anger about on a
level with the surface of the ground and
inclining it downwards only enough to
keep the oil in the holes when they are
filled. Fill the stump with coal oil and
allow the stump to remain undisturbed
for two weeks. The oil will be permeat-
ing the wood after it has all disappeared
from the holes; and the oil in the wood
will keep out SO much moisture, should
there be a rain. After the oil has dis
appeared and there has been several dry
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-03-24
CHEWING Is BAD FORM NOW.
Aen-Are Taking to substitutes Roscoe
Conkling Broke Up Habit.
New York Sun

Men1Are Taking to Substitutes-How Roscoe
Conkling Broke Up Habit.
New York Sun.
Manufacturers of tobacco say that the
habit OF chewing is rapidly becoming as
obsolete as that of snuff taking, except
among workingnen. ''You will find some
of the older mea of wealth and refine
ment who chew nowadays" said large
dearler, ''but they acquired the habit
years ago. when it was not thought vulgar
or disreputable to chew. Some of the
older judges chew, and there are mem
bers of the supreme court of the United
States who were not easy on the bench
unless they had quid. A very few
clergymen use tobacco in this way, and
not a few of the older lawyers and other
professional men of years. But in the
younger generation of cultured men of
good manners there are very few, COM
paratlVely, now to be found who chew.
The young men OF to-day rarely acquire
the habit, and predict that within the
next few years users of the weed in this
form will be only those who belong to the
less cultivated society. It is now regard
very bad form to chew, though thirty
years ago it was not. No; chewing is 60
ing the way of snuff taking.
Many Of our most prominent public
men fought hard to overcome this habit.
In Chicago and St.'Louis chewing is now
regarded as vulgar by persons who make
any pretensions to social standing, and
many of the devices employed by men
to overcome the habit are amusing. At the
late trial of Maxwell in st. Louis the three
prosecuting officers were noticed con-
stantiy chewing during the trial, and
one of them said: eyes, we are chewing
spruce gum. and we are doing it to break
the habit of chewing tobacco, and if you
will notice on the street you will see three
men out Of five Il mean, of course, those
who are not workingmen) vigorously
working their jaws. They are chewing
gum, for there seems to be a tacit agree
ment among gentlemen here to quit chew
ing tobacco"
Many men now carry a strip of slippery
elm IN their pocket, and when they feel
the old craving come over them, then
they bite off a bit and chew it. A down
town druggist said that he sold a great
deal of licorice root to men who we're try
ing to break the tobacco habit. Roscoe
Conkling used to chew, although he never